Thread by @ShellenbergerMD

Russia has leveraged an economy half the size of Germany's to end the post-Cold War era and defeat NATO

It did so with aggression, natural gas, & nuclear

America must produce massively more nuclear, natural gas, and oil, or liberal democratic Western civilization is dead

Imagine thinking that the US, Europe, and liberal Western democracies can stand up to China and Russia by becoming wholly dependent on solar panels made by the former and natural gas produced by the latter

It's civilizational suicide

Everyone's been asleep. Time to wake up.

The writing was on the wall years ago

The basic physics of renewables is why they can't work

Imagine making our high-energy capitalist civilization work on energy sources THAT LITERALLY KEPT HUMANS TRAPPED IN POVERTY FOR CENTURIES

Renewables is the energy of serfs and slaves.

Hydro-electricity, I will be the first to say, is essential to lifting poor nations out of poverty. The next obvious way for Congo to develop is through building a large hydro dam, just like US and Europe did

But powering societies on solar panels & wind turbines is a sick joke

All of this was obvious decades ago based on the simple, awful physics of wood, sunlight, and wind

Hydro is the highest renewable fuel because water is storable & dispatchable

But Germany proved it once again over the last decade

We already knew that, by 2025, Germany will have spent $580 billion to make electricity more expensive and more carbon-intensive than France’s

But now we see that Germany will also have weakened NATO made Europe vulnerable to Russian aggression.

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1146045263238369284?s=20&t=0VJ09PrFWwyGVR6rVMgEhA

The first and most obvious thing that MUST be done is for @JoeBiden to call @OlafScholz IMMEDIATE and urge him to turn back on the three nuclear reactors that Germany idiotically closed on December in a hysterical, apocalyptic anti-nuclear panic

euronews.com/2021/12/31/ger…

We need to see urgent concerted action led by @POTUS Congress & Canada to significantly expand oil, natural gas, and nuclear output from N. America to insure short-and long-term energy security of allies in Europe & Asia, as urged by @pmarca & @esaagar

https://twitter.com/esaagar/status/1496875801672884224?s=20&t=DIQOdviKM000f8Xvwt3uEQ

Europe's gas stockpiles are already dangerously low so @POTUS must work with Europe and Asia to turn back on shuttered nuclear plants to conserve on natural gas being used in electricity generation and reduce reliance on Russian natural gas

https://twitter.com/JavierBlas/status/1472509561689063424?s=20&t=TlQyEDzkqpO8gNhIzBsIgQ

The US Department of Energy should be on wartime footing to oversee the expansion of oil and natural gas in North America with clear plans to increase US exports to Europe to reduce the continent's over-reliance on Russian imports

wsj.com/articles/with-…

"Well over half of Germany’s natural-gas imports come from Russia—a higher proportion than most of its large European neighbors. This partly reflects Germany’s high dependence on gas in its energy mix, after the country phased out nuclear energy and is now exiting coal..."